KRUISER: Slate: Deodorant Is a Tool of the Patriarchy or Something.

CHANGE: Bahrain FM to Times of Israel: Israel is here to stay, and we want peace with it.

TAMARA KEEL: The Pocket Pistol in 2019: How Far Have We Come?

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NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. Media Ignores 2020 Democrat Joe Sestak’s Connection to Big Obama Scandal.

BLACK CRIME VICTIMS MATTER TOO: To Mayor Pete Buttigieg: If you really think Black Lives Matter, please don’t lose sight of the need for police presence in the neighborhoods that see the most crime.

Chicago may have lost sight of that in 2016 to the great detriment of its citizens.

SHOCKER: Decriminalizing NYC Bus Fare Skipping Leads To Fewer People Paying Fares.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Liberals and the Looming Big Money Problem Facing Higher Education.

CHANGE? NATO says it will act unless Russia destroys nuclear-ready missile.

The U.S. has previously said it will quit a decades-old missile treaty with Russia if the latter fails to destroy the missile, labeled the SSC-8 by NATO.

The 1987 INF Treaty between the U.S. and Russia sought to eliminate nuclear and conventional missiles, as well as their launchers, with short ranges (310–620 miles) and intermediate ranges (620–3,420 miles).

NATO has said the SSC-8 violates those terms and that Russia has been deploying the system at locations which could threaten countries across Europe.

Speaking at a press conference in Brussels Tuesday, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Russia had just five weeks to scrap the system and save the treaty.

“We call on Russia to take the responsible path. Unfortunately, we have seen no indication that Russia intends to do so,” he said.

The US might act, but I can’t imagine the rest of NATO doing much, if anything.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Home Depot co-founder: Bernie Sanders is the ‘enemy of every entrepreneur.’

LAWRENCE PERSON: The Twitter Primary Revisited for June 2019. “As I did in previous months, here’s an update on the number of Twitter followers among Democratic presidential candidates. Joe Sestak has jumped into the race since the last update, raising the number of accounts tracked to 25.”

The debates kick off tonight, and yes, there will be live drunkblog coverage at PJMedia.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Trump Doctrine.

The problem is that in contrast to the straightforward brutalities of old-school war this approach may result in stalemate. Indeed the real weakness of the new Trump Strategy is not that it lacks an Exit but that it lacks an Entry. As Tanya Goudsouzian pointed out in Le Monde it has proved extremely difficult to effect regime change using “war by other means” alone. “Over the years, the preferred US weapon has been economic and financial sanctions. When used against North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and others, they succeeded only in punishing economies and people.”

So far hybrid warfare has proved capable of devastating their countries but not toppling its leaders. Despite ration lines in Cuba, a Venezuelan economy so bad even Russian arms dealers are wary of selling to them, a North Korea heading for another starvation winter the brutal regimes in these countries rule in perfect safety, willing if necessary to stay in power to the death of their last wretched citizen. Reuters paints the haunting picture of towns in a socialist Venezuela reduced to a “primitive isolation” that may well be eventual fate of Iran.

Perhaps the problem with the Trump Doctrine — that it leaves the future of other countries in their own peoples’ hands — is also one of its strengths.

In the short-to-medium term, that’s certainly less satisfying. In the longterm though it lowers our cost of engagement, while also reducing other assorted (and often unanticipated) risks.

FALCON HEAVY: Here’s What It Looked Like to Watch the World’s Most Powerful Rocket Launch.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS: Media, Dems Shift From ‘Manufactured Crisis’ to ‘Crisis’ at Border (Video).

Not least of which, everyone’s favorite new socialist “It Girl,” who went from posing grim-faced in shots taken at a tent city near El Paso, Texas last year as a candidate, to declaring the Trump “fabricating a ‘national emergency’ over immigrants” in January, to calling housing for illegal immigrants “concentration camps” earlier this month.

Curiously though yesterday, “AOC and the Fresh Face Caucus Vote Against Aid for the Border After Grandstanding About It. This is how you know you Alexandria-Ocasio Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley aren’t serious about their constant emotional appeals regarding the border. The ‘fresh faces’ of the Democratic party are all about making Twitter rants and posing for glamour shots, but when it comes to actually helping solve the problem, they are there to work against those trying to fix the situation. The aforementioned four were the only Democrats to vote against the Border Security funding bill that passed the House yesterday.”

Given her “concentration camp” rhetoric, at the American edition of the London Spectator, Daniella Greenbaum Davis asks, “AOC: ignorant or anti-Semitic?”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. If you’re in insurmountable student loan debt, it’s probably your own fault.

FLASHBACK: Ban AC for DC.

Related: Make DC A Swamp Again.

ERIC POSNER: The Trouble Starts If Facebook’s New Currency Succeeds. “Libra will almost exactly replicate all the problems generated by the company’s social network.”

Libra will be big. Facebook has 2.4 billion users, and if, as Facebook promises, they can costlessly, seamlessly jump from their Facebook accounts to their Calibra wallets to spend money, many of them will do so. Visa has issued more than 2 billion credit cards and is used by more than 40 million merchants. Vodafone has 444 million customers. Uber has 91 million riders. With such a huge user base—many of whom are already the helpless playthings of Facebook’s algorithms—the Libra reserve will grow rapidly.

As Libra becomes a juggernaut, expect other huge companies to sign up for membership and then integrate Libra into their operations, delivering millions or billions more users. Currency, like communication, exhibits strong network effects—meaning that it becomes more valuable as more people use it. So the strategy Facebook used so effectively to build its social network—lure in customers with zero-pricing and then make money off them without their realizing it—will work just as well for Libra. Here, though, customers will enrich Facebook and its partners through interest payments on the reserve rather than exploitation of their data—though that might happen, too.

Lots to chew on here; read the whole thing.

FLASHBACK: Look Outside Politics For Heroes.

I BLAME SOCIAL MEDIA. IN REAL LIFE, PEOPLE DON’T SEEM MUCH DIFFERENT. Poll: Americans Say We’re Angrier Than A Generation Ago.

Say, didn’t someone just write a book about that?

TOMORROW’S NEWS TODAY: Mainstream Media Already Has Headlines Written: Elizabeth Warren is Big Winner in First Debates.

OH, GLORIOUS DAY! U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Tennessee liquor retail regulations.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I wrote a column about this case earlier this year. Note that it’s another Institute For Justice win in the Supreme Court.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Inventing Victimhood: Universities too often serve as “hate-crime hoax” mills.

THAT JUST PROVES HOW MUCH BETTER THEY ARE THAN YOU AND ME: Ted Cruz Presses: Google Witness Can’t Name a Single Senior Exec Who Voted For Trump.